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Issue Details

Issue #497
Published September 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE SWORD OF ZORRO, No. 497". Code number is ZORRO #497-539. (No "O.S." in code number.) Copyright 1953 by Johnston McCully.

Cover Details - "The Sword of Zorro"

Characters Zorro
Genre period
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)

1 page story "Lunge and Parry"

Synopsis Description of the basics of fencing moves.
Genre fact
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Two illustrations with typeset text. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

34 page Zorro story "The Sword of Zorro"

Characters Zorro [Don Diego]; Don Alejandro; Don Viciente
Synopsis Night riders are raiding ranches, looting them of anything of value, then burning what's left. The militia always seems to arrive too late. Zorro comes out of retirement to investigate the raids and finds himself in the midst of a conspiracy to overthrow the government of Alta California.
Genre period
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler
Notes Story continues on the inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Zorro carves his "Z" with his sword on the foreheads of those who deserve it.